Category Archives: Logic of Relatives

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on Pragmatic Semiotic Information. All my projects are exploratory in character but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most. The question is: What is information and how does it … Continue reading →

This is a Survey of previous blog and wiki posts on the Semiotic Theory Of Information. All my projects are exploratory in essence but this line of inquiry is more open-ended than most. The question is: What is information and how … Continue reading →

Re: Ontolog Forum • RavS In pursuing applications of pragmatic semiotics to scientific research the following distinctions are critical. We have the relational roles known as Object, Sign, and Interpretant Sign. These are places or roles a thing may occupy … Continue reading →

Re: Ontolog Forum • RavS The words predicate, proposition, relation, and so on are affected by many variations in usage. Some of their uses are associated with philosophical habits unlikely to change any time soon. But there are a number … Continue reading →

Re: Ontolog Forum • RonS Concrete examples are very instructive in this arena, and when it comes to refutations a single counter-example serves to puncture many a fallacious general proposition. Here’s a couple of articles, illustrated with concrete examples of a … Continue reading →

Re: Ontolog Forum • FK Our thoughts live in natural and artificial languages the way fish swim in natural and artificial bodies of water. One of the lessons most strikingly impressed on me by my first year physics course and … Continue reading →

Re: Ontolog Forum • JS JS: A binary relation is a set of ordered pairs of the elements of some other set. That is the first definition I learned for binary relations. Slightly more generally, a binary relation is a … Continue reading →